Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland

An Ordinariate Group is beginning to come together from different parts of Scotland to explore this generous offer from Pope Benedict XVII to Episcopalians and Anglicans seeking full communion with the Catholic Church. It is hoped that the first Ordinariate Parish in Scotland will be established, centred in Inverness, but embracing people from all over Scotland who are beginning to explore the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Where ever you live in Scotland, there are ways of bringing you into the fold of those taking the Ordinariate Journey in Scotland.

Scottish identity

An Ordinariate, by definition, must always correspond to the jurisdiction of a Catholic Bishops’ Conference in any geographical area. In the UK there are two – the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland.

As the possibility of an Ordinariate in these island began to become a reality it became obvious that for any Ordinariate group to take root here, it should, initially at least, be part of the Ordinariate of England and Wales, but with a definite Scottish identity working through the Ordinary, Fr Keith Newton, and the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, through Bishop Philip Tartaglia of Paisely, who the Scottish Bishops have delegated to work with the Ordinariate in Scotland.

All around Scotland

At present the Scotland Ordinariate Group has people in the Highlands of Scotland, as well as Edinburgh, Glasgow, Tayside and Stirling and ways are being found, with the support of Fr Keith Newton and Bishop Philip Tartaglia, to help the group in Scotland grow.

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Newman Fund

The Catholic League is now accepting donations towards the foundation of the Ordinariate through the Blessed John Henry Newman Fund.

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All monies received by the Newman Fund will be donated to the Ordinary. The Newman Fund will close once the Ordinariate's own systems for managing donations are in place.

Pray for the Ordinariates

Eternal Father, we place before you the project of forming the Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans seeking full communion with the Catholic Church.

We thank you for this initiative of Pope Benedict XVI, and we ask that, through the Holy Spirit,
the Ordinariates may become:
families of charity, peace and the service of the poor, centres for Christian unity and reconciliation, communities that welcome and evangelize, teaching the Faith in all its fullness, celebrating the liturgy and sacraments with prayerful reverence and maintaining a distinctive patrimony of Christian faith and culture.

Drawing on that heritage we pray:

Go before us, O Lord,
in all our doings
with thy most gracious favour,
and further us
with thy continual help;
that in all our works, begun,
continued and ended in thee,
we may glorify thy holy name,
and finally by thy mercy
obtain everlasting life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.Amen.

Our Lady of Walsingham:Pray for us as we claim
your motherly care.

Saint Therese of the Infant Jesus:Pray for us as we place this
work under your patronage.

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About Us

This website is an unofficial blog which aims to support the generosity of Pope Benedict XVI in his Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus. It is not a website of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham but it does aim to relay information from various news sources, including the Ordinariate, to a wider audience. Visit the official website of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham here: www.ordinariate.org.uk and pray for those seeking to implement Anglicanorum coetibus throughout the Catholic Church.